Resources

The Humanitarian Energy Outlook 2023 underscores the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions to address the growing crises of displacement, climate change, and inequality.

A technical review of the features of commercially viable smart meters, including a description of key technologies.

This report published by CrossBoundary Energy – Appliance financing 3.0 – focuses on income generating equipment – electric pressure cookers, freezers/fridges and grain mills.

Article on momentum towards energy compact targets

This report published by Shell Foundation, based on research conducted by Value for Women (V4W), demonstrates how gender equality in the workplace can deliver positive social and economic impacts on SMEs highlighting improvements in employee satisfaction, productivity and retention creating more profitable and sustainable business models.

Lower tariffs significantly increase consumption, and these high consumption levels are sustained over time. We are seeing that mini-grids customers have maintained ~1.5-3x their baseline consumption 3+ years after tariff reduction. This is good news for developers and donors: it means tariff reduction programs can sustainably be launched at scale; since customers will maintain the high consumption levels required to justify such programs.

The webinar focused on sharing lessons learnt through the ENabling African Cities for Transformative Energy Access (ENACT) project, and discussing possibilities of improving end-user financing and ways in which the private sector can work with national and local governments to improve access to affordable and sustainable clean cooking solutions for the urban poor living and working in African urban informal settlements.

An overview of Mini-grid Innovation Lab work with both mini-grid developers and utilities to accelerate energy access, by trialing new business ideas that drive commercial viability in the field, sharing the results of these experiments with the sector, and scaling those that are high-impact.

The article discusses the future of power grids in Africa, focusing on the shift towards decentralized, consumer-centric, and flexible energy systems

This report offers critical insights on the key learnings from the PEII initiative and analyzes the progress made against the problems that PEII was intended to solve.

Published by the African Forum for Utility Regulators AFUR.

The latest report from Energy 4 Impact’s research programme Crowd Power, part of the TEA platform, explores how to attract investors to energy access crowdfunding.

The Lab expects that offering customers income-generating machines on credit will increase electricity consumption

This report examines the role that alternative finance can offer in growing the energy access sector, with a particular focus on equity crowdfunding.

This report provides practical guidance to founders and entrepreneurs interested in launching an equity crowdfunding campaign.

This Energy Catalyst report introduces and discusses the major enabling digital technologies that are impacting the energy access sector, providing a selection of the most innovative applications of these technologies and the key digital trends in the sector.

• Read the full report
• Read the abridged insight

A new flagship report from Crowd Power, part of the TEA platform, highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a 25% drop in energy access-related crowdfunding volumes.

The report, commissioned by the Faraday Institution and carried out by DNV and TFE Africa, explores the potential of battery energy storage solutions BESS to be viable and competitive in sub-Saharan Africa, as a way of offering alternative solutions for resilience and grid independence. If realised, this would enable the integration of more utility-scale renewables and bringing electricity and opportunity to the least developed corners of the continent. The accompanying techno-economic model into BESS, explores their potential to displace fossil-fuel powered generators and increase the uptake of cheaper, cleaner and more reliable energy.

This is an excel based technical assessment tool that models the mass energy balance of seven different demand sectors to provide an assessment of feedstock requirements (type, quantity, energy output) to meet the potential energy requirements using the appropriate technology type (either combustion or AD).

• Mass energy Balance tool (xlsm)
• Methodology document (pdf)

This is an Excel- based economic assessment tool that models the Life Cycle Costs of bioenergy projects to help developers determine the economic viability of investing in bioenergy.

• Download Life Cycle Costing Excel tool (xlsm)
• Download guidance document (pdf)

This database provides a curated list of prominent technology providers, manufacturers and project developers that have undertaken projects in BSEAA2 target countries.